[Zope] slow site

[Timothy Wilson]

Hey everyone,

My Web site is acting very sluggish, and I wonder if someone has an
explanation or suggestion. I'm running Zope 2.1.6 behind Apache. Apache is
also serving a number of other very low traffic virtual hosts. My site,
also, is very low traffic. The "server" is a cast-off IBM Pentium 120
desktop machine w/ 32 MB RAM and 4.3 GB IDE drive. The server is on a T1
connection our school's ISP.

The site address is http://www.isd197.k12.mn.us/ Notice in particular
the long delay while the browser is contacting the host. Everything loads
pretty quickly once the page starts appearing.

A non-Zope, purely static page on the same server,
http://www.comed.isd197.k12.mn.us/, loads much more quickly.

Site notes:
The Slashdot-esque news items are being gathered from the ZCatalog for
display and the headlines on the right are generated via Amos's RSSChannel
and XMLDocument products. There's not much else to the site's homepage.

Any suggestions?

-Tim

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